ppl. a. [f. LOG v. + -ED1.] a. Reduced to the condition of a log; lit. and fig. rendered incapable of action or movement. Of water: Stagnant. Of a vessel: Water-logged. b. Of land: Cleared by hewing the timber into logs.
c. 1820. N. Eng. Hist. & Gen. Register (1891), XLV. 273. With deliberate aim, I kill one [Indian] and leave the other logg’d.
1838. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., I. 265/2. Should she happen to get logged, there would be perhaps a difficulty in bringing her to the proper steer again.
1880. Disraeli, Endym., lxiii. We should find employment … in other countries, even if the States were logged.
1889. J. Watson, in 19th Cent., Oct., 702. Dippers [birds] will not long stay where the water is slow or logged.
1901. Scotsman, 29 Oct., 9/2. The assumption that the logged … areas contained the same average quantity of timber per acre as the forests still standing.
